Alan N. Baker

Alan N. Baker (1940-2017), New Zealand Marine mammalogist and echinodermologist

• Fairview, 8 Waters Lane, Kerikeri, Bay of Islands, New Zealand, 0295

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 21 taxon names authored by Alan N. Baker

Eponyms

(List may be incomplete)

• 1 eponym of Alan N. Baker

Publications

1968

• Baker, A.N. 1968: The echinoid fauna of north-eastern New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, zoology 11(1): 1–7, plate 1. Reference page. 
• Baker, A.N. 1968: A new cidarid echinoid from northern New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, zoology 10(21): 199–203, plate 1. Reference page. 

1969

• Baker, A.N. 1969: Two new heart-urchins, including a new species of Cyclaster, from New Zealand waters (Echinoidea: Spatangoida). Records of the Dominion Museum 6(16): 265–273. Reference page. 

1970

• Baker, A.N.; Clark, H.E.S. 1970: Some archibenthal echinoderms from northern New Zealand. Records of the Dominion Museum 7(1): 1–11. Reference page. 

1971

• Baker, A.N. 1971: Pyrosoma spinosum Herdman, a giant pelagic tunicate new to New Zealand waters. Records of the Dominion Museum 7(12): 107–117. Reference page. 

1972

• Baker, A.N. 1972: Araeosoma coriaceum (A. Agassiz) and Pseudoboletia indiana (Michelin), new to New Zealand, with notes on other echinoids from the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. Records of the Dominion Museum 8(2): 9–19. Reference page. 

1974

• Baker, A.N. 1974: New species of brittle-stars from New Zealand (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea). Records of the Dominion Museum 8(15): 247–266. Reference page. 
• Baker, A.N. 1974: Risso's dolphin in New Zealand waters, and the identity of "Pelorus Jack." Records of the Dominion Museum 8(16): 267–276. Reference page. 
• Baker, A.N. 1974. New Species of Brittle-stars from New Zealand (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea). Records of the Dominion Museum. 8(15): 247-266. Reference page. 

1977

• Baker, A.N. 1977. Some Deep-sea Ophiuroidea from New Zealand. National Museum of New Zealand records. 1(10): 149-160. Reference page. 

1979

• Baker, A.N. 1979. Some Ophiuroidea from the Tasman Sea and adjacent waters. New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 6(1): 21-51. DOI: 10.1080/03014223.1979.10428345 . Reference page. 

1980

• Baker, A.N. 1980. Euryalinid Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from Australia, New Zealand, and the south-west Pacific Ocean. New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 7(1): 11-83. DOI: 10.1080/03014223.1980.10423763 . Reference page. 

1981

• Baker, A.N.; Devaney, D.M. 1981. New records of Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from southern Australia, including new species of Ophiacantha and Ophionereis. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 105(4): 155–178. BHL full article (PDF) Reference page. 

1986

• Baker, A.N.; Rowe, F.W.E; Clark, H.E.S. 1986: A new class of Echinodermata from New Zealand. Nature, 321: 862–864. DOI: 10.1038/321862a0 Reference page. 

1988

• Rowe, F.W.E; Baker, A.N.; Clark, H.E.S. 1988: The morphology, development and taxonomic status of Xyloplax Baker, Rowe and Clark (1986) (Echinodermata: Concentricycloidea), with the description of a new species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 233: 431-459. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1988.0032 Reference page. 
• Paterson, G.L.J., Baker, A.N. 1988. A revision of the genus Ophiambix (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) including the description of a new species. Journal of Natural History. 22(6): 1579–1590. DOI: 10.1080/00222938800770991 Reference page. 

2001

• Baker, A.N., Clark, H.E.S., McKnight, D.G. 2001. New species of the brittlestar genus Astrogymnotes H. L. Clark, 1914, from New Zealand and Japan (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 31(2): 299-306. DOI: 10.1080/03014223.2001.9517655 Reference page. 

2002

• Dalebout, M.L., Mead, J.G., Baker, C.S., Baker, A.L. & van Helden, A.L. 2002. A New Species of Beaked Whale, Mesoplodon perrini sp. n. (Cetacea: Ziphiidae), Discovered Through Phylogenic Analysis of Mitochondrial DNA Sequences. Marine Mammal Science 18(3): 577–608. DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-7692.2002.tb01061.x PDF Reference page. 

2016

• Baker, A.N. 2016. An illustrated catalogue of type specimens of the bathyal brittlestar genera Ophiomusium Lyman and Ophiosphalma H. L. Clark (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea). Zootaxa 4097(1): 1–40. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4097.1.1 Full article (PDF) Reference page.